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there is this window opening for mitt romney and he wants to take it. you can say the administration dropped the ball, they did not anticipate the terrorist attack, they left americans vulnerable. >> there is no mention to of president george bush. why is that legacy avoided? >> there is a real debate within the camp. there is a kind of -- you do not know where he stands. in some places, he has a former bush advisers who are real and neocons. in others, they're much more moderate and really believed international institutions, will want to empower natural institutions. we have not seen where he comes down and we're not sure whether he is a neocon or a realist or aim moderates. he keeps giving these speeches, but he does not nail it down. we're trying to figure out him as he does. >> maybe we will find out more in net foreign policy debate. the about this campaign, u.s. policies towards china has been a point against -- between the candidates. congressional committees called for to chinese telecommunications companies to be banned from the american marke
there is this window opening for mitt romney and he wants to take it. you can say the administration dropped the ball, they did not anticipate the terrorist attack, they left americans vulnerable. >> there is no mention to of president george bush. why is that legacy avoided? >> there is a real debate within the camp. there is a kind of -- you do not know where he stands. in some places, he has a former bush advisers who are real and neocons. in others, they're much more moderate...
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but that's the long-standing narrative romney has had. so he had an opportunity here to kind of plug back into that narrative. and when he says the word "apology" at a rally with republicans, the whole place lights up. >> rose: because they have context with it, they know he used it before as a charge against the obama administration. >> that's right. there is a largest contest which is that american foreign policy should never apologize. that america leads through strengthment you hear that all the time through governor romney. so this is a global argument between whether you do it through soft power and diplomacy or a more kind of forward-leaning to use a cliche approach that is a bit strong their romney advocates for. >> rose: but at the same time some republicans within his own party and some people who write about politics but are considered to be favorable to some of the things that governor romney believes in, are pushing back and saying this is not the place to do what he's doing. >> pushing back very hard. and it's a question of
but that's the long-standing narrative romney has had. so he had an opportunity here to kind of plug back into that narrative. and when he says the word "apology" at a rally with republicans, the whole place lights up. >> rose: because they have context with it, they know he used it before as a charge against the obama administration. >> that's right. there is a largest contest which is that american foreign policy should never apologize. that america leads through...
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who is right in this debate: mitt romney or jon huntsman? >> well, i would say the reason why we have a trade imbalance with china are long and complex. ey have to do with mistakes and policies of the united states, policies that have led us to spend more than our income running ever larger trade deficits. on the other side, china is not consuming enough and has had a model of growth has been based on a weaker currency but there are microfactors that affect currency so it's not very black and white in term who was is at fault. i think both sides have had mistakes in policies that have led to these growing trade imbalance and now it's becoming a source of political and policy friction. >> liu: richard, let me throw that out to you, then, which is the right approach fro china or with china in this debate? >> well, i certainly don't agree mr. romney's approach and i think he's wrong on a number of levels. he makes a big deal out of saying he'll declare china to be a currency manipulator on day one of his presidency but, of course, if you do tha
who is right in this debate: mitt romney or jon huntsman? >> well, i would say the reason why we have a trade imbalance with china are long and complex. ey have to do with mistakes and policies of the united states, policies that have led us to spend more than our income running ever larger trade deficits. on the other side, china is not consuming enough and has had a model of growth has been based on a weaker currency but there are microfactors that affect currency so it's not very black...
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>> -- romney camp. so we didn't hear much from the sort of john bolton wing, the more neo-conservative group. we heard much more from the mainstream group. and then there are also a group of realists who have sort of -- you know, old foreign policy realists who have come in -- also been brought into the tent. we haven't heard as much from them. >> rose: who would that be. the transition from the national security group is being run by bob zell leg who used to be the president of the world bank. >> rose: and deputy secretary of state. >> and deputy secretary of state prior to that. he and mr. bolton frequently clashed. not surprisingly mr. bolton clashed with many others in the second term of the bush administration and the second term was very different from the first term of the bush administration. so what you're seeing happen in the romney campaign is that many of the old conflicts left unresolved as everybody left the white house on january 20, 2009 are being rekindled within the campaign. i'm not s
>> -- romney camp. so we didn't hear much from the sort of john bolton wing, the more neo-conservative group. we heard much more from the mainstream group. and then there are also a group of realists who have sort of -- you know, old foreign policy realists who have come in -- also been brought into the tent. we haven't heard as much from them. >> rose: who would that be. the transition from the national security group is being run by bob zell leg who used to be the president of the...
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he is much better than mitt romney, i want to make that clear. the point is that we now need some robust, progressive, a vision -- robust, progressive vision and action. massive investment in education, infrastructure. >> given how polarized american politics is, the kind of policies you're writing about in your books, it is it possible to see them implemented in this country right now? >> i think so. so many americans are wrestling with poverty right now. >> but they are the kind of people who do not vote. >> that has been historically true. the poor typically do not matter. they are invisible because they do not vote, they do not make big campaign contributions, and both parties are owned by big business, big banks, and big money. the new poor are the former middle-class. not just brown and black folk, but white folks. educated, talented men and women in this country who played by the rules, went to school, work that the job, lost their home, lost their savings. poverty is no longer color-coded in america. one of the reasons that mr. obama and
he is much better than mitt romney, i want to make that clear. the point is that we now need some robust, progressive, a vision -- robust, progressive vision and action. massive investment in education, infrastructure. >> given how polarized american politics is, the kind of policies you're writing about in your books, it is it possible to see them implemented in this country right now? >> i think so. so many americans are wrestling with poverty right now. >> but they are the...
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the romney said i'm not that guy in massachusetts and obama is running as i'm not mitt romney. do you have any idea what president obama plans to do on day one? i know he's given speeches but you don't have a sense of why he wants-- what is he burning to do? and romney is so lost that-- and you can see it with all these things have happened. he's pretending to be someone he's not. charlie, you and i could have a conversation for two hours and have a conversation about this subject. relations between jews and arabs ia very sensitive subject. we could talk about this for two hours and i would never get in trouble. i would never cross the line because my feelings about that is i don't know what i think and why i think it. romney, the reason he keeps falling out of the ring is that's what happens when you're pretending to be something you're not. there's nothing organic about any of this and you could see it at the republican convention. it was very obvious to me. he is renting this party to fulfill his dream to become president and they're renting him to get rid of barack obama. b
the romney said i'm not that guy in massachusetts and obama is running as i'm not mitt romney. do you have any idea what president obama plans to do on day one? i know he's given speeches but you don't have a sense of why he wants-- what is he burning to do? and romney is so lost that-- and you can see it with all these things have happened. he's pretending to be someone he's not. charlie, you and i could have a conversation for two hours and have a conversation about this subject. relations...
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romney, here's a little advice. before you debate barack obama on foreign policy, you better finish the debate with yourself. >> woodruff: today the new obama ad pointed to romney's much criticized overseas trip during the summer to argue he lacks experience and clarity on foreign affairs. >> reckless. amateurish. that's what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney's gaffe-filled july tour of israel and poland. >> woodruff: all of this played out as the president himself was in southern california. he declared the home of the late farm workers' union leader caesar chavez a national landmark. he also held fund-raisers in los angeles and san francisco. his campaign and the democratic national committee raised $181 million in september, the most for any month this year. but money aside, it appears romney's performance in last week's highly watched debate has improved his standing in the race. a new gallup tracking poll found the candidates in a dead heat, each receiving 47% among registered voters. the pre
romney, here's a little advice. before you debate barack obama on foreign policy, you better finish the debate with yourself. >> woodruff: today the new obama ad pointed to romney's much criticized overseas trip during the summer to argue he lacks experience and clarity on foreign affairs. >> reckless. amateurish. that's what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney's gaffe-filled july tour of israel and poland. >> woodruff: all of this played out as the president...
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romney commented (did not romney did not comment on his taxes at a stop in las vegas late today. his campaign also posted online a letter from accountants saying he paid an average effective federal tax rate of 20% over a 20-year period ending in 2009. to take from some and give to others this redistribution idea this redistribution idea has been tried in other places. this is not a new idea. it's just never worked in other places. >> woodruff: president obama has criticized romney for refusing to release more than two years of returns. and appearing via satellite before a conference of the american association of retired persons this morning, mr. obama brought up romney's secretly recorded remarks about americans who don't pay income taxes, some of whom are elderly people on social security. >> given the conversations that have been out there in the political arena lately, i want to emphasize that medicare and social security are not handouts. you've paid into these programs your whole life. ( applause ) you've earned them. and as president, it's my job to make sure that medicar
romney commented (did not romney did not comment on his taxes at a stop in las vegas late today. his campaign also posted online a letter from accountants saying he paid an average effective federal tax rate of 20% over a 20-year period ending in 2009. to take from some and give to others this redistribution idea this redistribution idea has been tried in other places. this is not a new idea. it's just never worked in other places. >> woodruff: president obama has criticized romney for...
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romney is up, he's down, gingrich is up, third party is up, down. the electorate is so volatile right now. and i think partly because they haven't found the person that they really feel is talking straight to them at the scale of the problem. i think people are really worried. >> well, i agree with that. i also think that they are inherently at times liking this, you know there is on the part of people a sense of show me strong leadership. and the-- the politicians is let me get elected first. and therefore there is the collision of interest right there. >> it's true. but i think again it's linked to makingpeople understand why you are taking bold action why it has to be done. keep explaining. >> i asked someone whose name we mentioned here, what was his-what was his problem with obama and he said he's not as gifted as explaining things as i thought he might be because he was so good at that inoperation. >> everyone wrote so much during his firscampaign about being so professorial and you know, having seminars and having an ability to explain. but m
romney is up, he's down, gingrich is up, third party is up, down. the electorate is so volatile right now. and i think partly because they haven't found the person that they really feel is talking straight to them at the scale of the problem. i think people are really worried. >> well, i agree with that. i also think that they are inherently at times liking this, you know there is on the part of people a sense of show me strong leadership. and the-- the politicians is let me get elected...
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less than a third support the plan backed by romney and ryan even though romney asserts he has no plans to change the medicare program for current seniors. right now, the federal government is required to help pay for each medical service used by medicare enrollees with no limits. but those costs are rising and the medicare trust fund will be insolvent in 2024. as house budget chair, ryan passed a plan that would increase the eligibility age gradually from 65 to 67 by 2034 and cap spending increases for medicare at just above the growth rate of the economy. the biggest change: when future beneficiaries-- those currently under 55-- become eligible for medicare, they will receive a set annual amount of money from the government to purchase private insurance or join the traditional government plan. vice president biden lambasted those ideas. and president obama called the plan an end to medicare as we know it, as he told voters in iowa last week. >> they want to turn medicare into a voucher program. that means seniors would no longer have the guarantee of medicare; they'd get a voucher to
less than a third support the plan backed by romney and ryan even though romney asserts he has no plans to change the medicare program for current seniors. right now, the federal government is required to help pay for each medical service used by medicare enrollees with no limits. but those costs are rising and the medicare trust fund will be insolvent in 2024. as house budget chair, ryan passed a plan that would increase the eligibility age gradually from 65 to 67 by 2034 and cap spending...
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but romney's going down. and so and if you look at where the movement happened, bill clinton was an important turning point and then maybe this week, it's hard to believe a week will help him but there is clearly a sense, certainly among republican circles that romney is behind. >> woodruff: how do you feel. >> kind of the same. romney's pollster put out a statement early in the week saying that nobody should pay, get too flustered by these polls, they kind of reflected a sugar high after the democratic convention. i think it's looking more like one of those protein shakes that can keep you going for a while. i think david's totally right. the polls that should make the governor and his team most nervous are those polls from the three most important battleground states. because if you play around with those really fun interactive electoral college maps you cannot get to 270 electoral votes for governor romney without at least two of those states. and you can get there for president obama without them. >> wood
but romney's going down. and so and if you look at where the movement happened, bill clinton was an important turning point and then maybe this week, it's hard to believe a week will help him but there is clearly a sense, certainly among republican circles that romney is behind. >> woodruff: how do you feel. >> kind of the same. romney's pollster put out a statement early in the week saying that nobody should pay, get too flustered by these polls, they kind of reflected a sugar high...
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that's where mitt romney grew up. that's where his name romney is best known. so rick santorum has got to win this race out-state and in west michigan. >> woodruff: so given that voter landscape, mickey maynard, what is the economy looking like? how are voters -- these republican voters feeling right now? >> well, the state mott poe of michigan translates as if you seek a pleasant peninsula look about you. and i've been joking lately that the state motto should be, "it's better than it was." the economy has settled down. we don't have the high double-digit unemployment numbers that we did at the depths of the recession, sail in 2009. in fact, the unemployment number is actually right around where the national number smaybe a little better. but one of the reasons for that is so many people have left the state in search of jobs. the auto industry is profitable again, and that looks really, really good in the headlines. there is hiring going on, but those jobs that are coming back are paying a lot less and the benefits are a lot less generous than the jobs that we
that's where mitt romney grew up. that's where his name romney is best known. so rick santorum has got to win this race out-state and in west michigan. >> woodruff: so given that voter landscape, mickey maynard, what is the economy looking like? how are voters -- these republican voters feeling right now? >> well, the state mott poe of michigan translates as if you seek a pleasant peninsula look about you. and i've been joking lately that the state motto should be, "it's better...
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>> well, if you listen to the romney campaign and to governor romney himself, he seems to have a more marshal approach to international affairs. he seems to think that maybe by leading with military force, by being more bold on the international stage, america can be defended ber. but i think that governor romney has not been able to articulate a compelling vision of how he would actually strengthen america. he's been vague about when he would get us out of afghanistan. i think frankly he has not really spoken very clearly about how he really differs from president obama on iran. i suspect their two positions are fairly close actually. >> ifill: on the same point, richard haas? >> i actually think there is a difference on iran. the president is clearly saying that iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. governor romney has been stricter that they can't be allowed any enriched material and clearly he wants to stop iran somewhere short of a nuke already weapon. i think again that's going to be part of the debate. what is it we can tolerate? can i make another point for a second
>> well, if you listen to the romney campaign and to governor romney himself, he seems to have a more marshal approach to international affairs. he seems to think that maybe by leading with military force, by being more bold on the international stage, america can be defended ber. but i think that governor romney has not been able to articulate a compelling vision of how he would actually strengthen america. he's been vague about when he would get us out of afghanistan. i think frankly he...
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, mitt romney's father george romney did. dwight eisenhower, until 12 months before he ran for president didn't belong to a church, okay. he had to join a church, he became a presbyterian. perfectly good church. as long as you have church membership are you apparently acceptable in the american political body. >> lehrer: mark, michael, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, criminal charges against one of baseball's best known players. jeffrey brown has our story. >> brown: 11-time all-star pitcher, seven-time cy young award winner, known as the "rocket" because of a fastball that helped him strike out so many batters during his 24-year career. roger clemens is now the latest baseball great facing criminal charges tied to his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs. the charges stem from testimony before congress in february 2008. >> let me be clear-- i have never taken steroids or h.g.h. >> brown: yesterday, a six-count indictment by a federal grand jury accused him of lying. clemens stood his ground,
, mitt romney's father george romney did. dwight eisenhower, until 12 months before he ran for president didn't belong to a church, okay. he had to join a church, he became a presbyterian. perfectly good church. as long as you have church membership are you apparently acceptable in the american political body. >> lehrer: mark, michael, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, criminal charges against one of baseball's best known players. jeffrey brown has our...
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>> i think the republican race is fascinating and i do not write off mitt romney. mitt romney's speech tonight before the republican national committee may be the most important speech of his career. he's got to say something new and different and engaging tonight, if he just does the barack obama's -- (indiscernible), de's going to fall flat. >> woodruff: this week the "newshour" announced and said on the air we have made a decision not to air the pictures the cover of charlie hebdo, the french news weekly, of course, the genesis of the tragic attack in paris last week. there's been a lot of viewer comment about it. the majority of it negative. some of it positive. i'm curious to know from the two of you, how do you think about this in i mean, our explanation is that we believe the offense that it could cause outweighs the news value. but there's a big debate about it. so i wanted to hear from the two of you. >> i agree with the viewers, whatever they say. but, you know i've changed my mind about this. my newspaper, the "new york times" made the exact same decisio
>> i think the republican race is fascinating and i do not write off mitt romney. mitt romney's speech tonight before the republican national committee may be the most important speech of his career. he's got to say something new and different and engaging tonight, if he just does the barack obama's -- (indiscernible), de's going to fall flat. >> woodruff: this week the "newshour" announced and said on the air we have made a decision not to air the pictures the cover of...
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critics say romney should release more returns, but so far he has resisted doing so. if a debate of something so dry as tax returns makes people so angry, but there is a wonder if the two sides will ever work together. we have more on where the battle lines are drawn. >> the highs, the lows, the ever-changing landscape of the miami skyline. many small time americans feel that miami it looks to alien, to gleaming. in 2012, as in previous elections, all eyes are on this day. but who cares? or are we missing the bigger picture? this country has essentially become ungovernable. its politics are poisonous. miami-dade colleges the biggest in the nation, 175,000 students, many of them from minorities. all of them poured out on the streets in this massive voter registration drive, a drive that comes after court battles over access -- what ideas do you need to vote? how far in advance can you do it? >> the efforts have come from republicans. but in essence, they are suppressing the vote. >> that is what you see its real purpose does? >> exactly. >> on the other side of the fen
critics say romney should release more returns, but so far he has resisted doing so. if a debate of something so dry as tax returns makes people so angry, but there is a wonder if the two sides will ever work together. we have more on where the battle lines are drawn. >> the highs, the lows, the ever-changing landscape of the miami skyline. many small time americans feel that miami it looks to alien, to gleaming. in 2012, as in previous elections, all eyes are on this day. but who cares?...
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the last three guys without won all won they won the first time they ran, and governor romney in this race thought you know, i've got a big advantage over everyone else running because i'm probably going to be one of the only ones who has run before. i think there are second acts in american politics. look at the people in our book. some who didn't run, but who came right up to the edge. people like chris christie, people like mike huckabee who has run once before but passed this time. i think you seem in game change and double down one of the realities of this is people often don't run for personal reasons. not pure political calculation i can raise the money or you know, who else is running but a lot of the people in our book don't run for personal reasons. they don't feel in their gut it is the right time. their wife doesn't want them to run, their kids don't want them to run. some considerations are they want to make money, it really is personal as opposed to political. >> there is also a lot of continuity in some sense there are these people in the 2012 race who were supernovas a
the last three guys without won all won they won the first time they ran, and governor romney in this race thought you know, i've got a big advantage over everyone else running because i'm probably going to be one of the only ones who has run before. i think there are second acts in american politics. look at the people in our book. some who didn't run, but who came right up to the edge. people like chris christie, people like mike huckabee who has run once before but passed this time. i think...
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now to mitt romney specifically they had the hashtag "romney fail" "romney shambles" "unfit mitt" and there were negative tweets as well. >> to give you the flavor, margaret, chris rock tweeted "i'll give mitt romney credit for this, he lost the election before he got out of bed this morning." and conservatives retweeted this line "just remember, obama condemned romney before he condemned the terrorists." that's not chnologically accurate but it's been bouncing around. >> warner: so you're saying the conservative social media pushed back on this one? >> yes, very much so. and the campaign itself, there were no facebook post bus on mitt romney's blog he put a two-sentence statement condemning the obama administration administration for its response saying that it was disgraceful for what he had done. then he's also posted other things on his blog, including positive coverage from the "wall street journal" and an article from liz cheney, the daughter of former vice president dick cheney >> doubling and tripling down. >> warner: now, this is the first time we've seen you on air since the
now to mitt romney specifically they had the hashtag "romney fail" "romney shambles" "unfit mitt" and there were negative tweets as well. >> to give you the flavor, margaret, chris rock tweeted "i'll give mitt romney credit for this, he lost the election before he got out of bed this morning." and conservatives retweeted this line "just remember, obama condemned romney before he condemned the terrorists." that's not chnologically accurate...
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front-runner because mitt romney is in a very new role tonight. >> ifill: yeah, because mitt romney has been the front-runner until this week's clutch of poll which is show rick perry vaunting over him. so what does he do with that different role? >> well, the way he had been handling it was to play sort of that rogue strategy that a front-runner likes to play. stay above the fray. he's been keeping his focus very much on president obama, not really engaging his republican opponents so much. that's not going to work anymore. this is an opportunity tonight for nirpl start contrasting himself with rick perry. but you have to remember, rick perry is still not wildly known. i know he's been governor of one of our largest states in texas for ten years, but there's still a lot of people across the country who don't yet know him. so while rick perry is going to be trying to introduce himself to a larger public, he's got mitt romney and six others on the stage who are going to be throwing their slings and arrows all towards him because he's the one wearing the big target. >> ifill: have we
front-runner because mitt romney is in a very new role tonight. >> ifill: yeah, because mitt romney has been the front-runner until this week's clutch of poll which is show rick perry vaunting over him. so what does he do with that different role? >> well, the way he had been handling it was to play sort of that rogue strategy that a front-runner likes to play. stay above the fray. he's been keeping his focus very much on president obama, not really engaging his republican opponents...
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. >> rightçb and a much more conservative version of what romney did in massachusetts. what really happened over the years the democrats were pushing and pushing for single payer for medicare for all, government for health insurance. they could get no where and they gradually got one down and finally with obamacare the democratj5cwhitehouse said okay let's go with the republican planning in essence. let's go with romney. and imagine their surprise when the republicans still opposed it. because it was obama's. and imagine their surprise still more when the way the republicans proposed it, the way the republicans proposed it was saying this is a government takeover of healthcare. it's exactly the opposite. it's the government through the taxpayers paying for subsidies so people can by insurance on the exchanges. it's the government giving the private sector all this money to seven tens of millions of customers. >> rose: what's the best healthcare in the world both in quality of care, access and thirdly cost. >> there are debates, some people say france some people say the
. >> rightçb and a much more conservative version of what romney did in massachusetts. what really happened over the years the democrats were pushing and pushing for single payer for medicare for all, government for health insurance. they could get no where and they gradually got one down and finally with obamacare the democratj5cwhitehouse said okay let's go with the republican planning in essence. let's go with romney. and imagine their surprise when the republicans still opposed it....
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seven of the states in play, mitt romney won, six he won by double digits. this is where when we look at election night and talk about a wave -- and a wave matters because if reps talk the senate, they say we have the country behind us, but if they win six states mitt romney won by double digits, they will have won the senate by proving republicans like republicans. that's not a national wave. if they win all the purple states, they will have a more plausible case to say our ideas were not just convincing republicans in arkansas and louisiana but we convinced the voters in states up for grabs in a presidential year and that gives us a chance to say our message has more resonance in battlefield is basically our turf. >> it's not just nat the math is on the democrats side this year, it's that five very senior democratic senators decided to retire at once. they probably would have had a good chance of getting reelected. >> charlie: do you think that's the same in 2016? >> yes, we may make a fuss about whether republicans get to 51 on election night. the number
seven of the states in play, mitt romney won, six he won by double digits. this is where when we look at election night and talk about a wave -- and a wave matters because if reps talk the senate, they say we have the country behind us, but if they win six states mitt romney won by double digits, they will have won the senate by proving republicans like republicans. that's not a national wave. if they win all the purple states, they will have a more plausible case to say our ideas were not just...
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. >> my turn coat is mitt romney for turning against romney care. his own plan that he tried to run away from as fast as he can. >> let me see if i can enlarge the circle here. turn coat of the year, great britain. in 2007 british prime minister tony blair went to libya and he met with libyan leader moammar gadhafi. that meeting restored gadhafi's international standing. but when gadhafi's people turned on gadhafi, britain followed suit and kissed them off. turn coat of the year. >> the americans did the same thing. okay. most boring, pat? >> collective award, the super committee. good-bye, good luck. >> not only that, but they were in februarytual. why did that happen? >> i mean, who is on it now, john? >> i could probably name who is on it and tell you what went wrong. i agree most americans don't share that obsession. my boast boring is rick san tarrum who does -- boring is rick cantorrum. >> did you see the automatic mechanism that took over in the absence of a super committee vote? you saw that. >> in the absence of. >> the absence of the vote
. >> my turn coat is mitt romney for turning against romney care. his own plan that he tried to run away from as fast as he can. >> let me see if i can enlarge the circle here. turn coat of the year, great britain. in 2007 british prime minister tony blair went to libya and he met with libyan leader moammar gadhafi. that meeting restored gadhafi's international standing. but when gadhafi's people turned on gadhafi, britain followed suit and kissed them off. turn coat of the year....
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the latest salvo: a web video from republican presidential candidate mitt romney saying the situation has worsened. >> welcome to nevada. >> woodruff: but romney-- along with the rest of the republican field-- did not offer specific plans of their own to deal with foreclosures during a debate last week. >> what would you do as president to help fix the overall problem of real estate and foreclosures in america? >> the right course is to let markets work. and in order to get markets to work and to help people, the best we can do is to get the economy going. and that's why the fundamental restructuring i've described is so essential to help homeowners and people across this country. >> woodruff: for the moment, the president has the responsibility of trying to alleviate the problem. >> these steps i've highlighted today won't solve all the housing problems here in nevada or across the country. given the magnitude of the housing bubble and the huge inventory of unsold homes in places like nevada, it's going to take time to solve these challenges. >> woodruff: some people could begin refi
the latest salvo: a web video from republican presidential candidate mitt romney saying the situation has worsened. >> welcome to nevada. >> woodruff: but romney-- along with the rest of the republican field-- did not offer specific plans of their own to deal with foreclosures during a debate last week. >> what would you do as president to help fix the overall problem of real estate and foreclosures in america? >> the right course is to let markets work. and in order to...
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i think the president's going to win but let's assume governor romney won. if he wins, that almost certainly means the republicans will hold on to the house and it will be about 50/50 in the senate, more or less the way it is now. you can't filibuster a budget. it's the only thing that doesn't require 60 votes in the senate to pass o as opposed to 51. so a lot of the policymaking will be pushed into the budget and he'll just have to pick up one or two people on that. if you assume that he is going to do what he said he's going to do, i think a lot of his priorities will be enacted. and i think it will be bad on the budget side, as i said. including for medicare t will drive the medicare trust fund out-- dry up the money by 2016. if what i think is going to happen happens and president obama wins, i think that too will break the logjam for a different reason. as senator mcconnell says their number one goal for the last four years has been denying him a second term. as soon as he gets that, they can't deny him a third term. he can't have one anyway. so i think
i think the president's going to win but let's assume governor romney won. if he wins, that almost certainly means the republicans will hold on to the house and it will be about 50/50 in the senate, more or less the way it is now. you can't filibuster a budget. it's the only thing that doesn't require 60 votes in the senate to pass o as opposed to 51. so a lot of the policymaking will be pushed into the budget and he'll just have to pick up one or two people on that. if you assume that he is...
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perry slammed romney's record during his time as governor of massachusetts. >> governor romney left the private sector. he did a great job of creating jobs in the private sector, all around the world. but the fact is, when he moved that experience to government, he had one of the lowest job creation rates in the country. >> the states are different. texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax. texas has a right-to-work state, a republican legislature, a republican supreme court. texas has a lot of oil & gas in the ground. those are wonderful things. but governor perry doesn't believe that he created thoseçç things. if he tried to say that, why, it would be like al gore saying he invented the internet. >> michael dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, mitt. ( laughter ) >> well, as a matter of fact, george bush and his predecessor created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. (laughter) >> that's not correct. >> suarez: former utah governor jon huntsman is far down in the polls, but he tried to inject himself into the jobs debate by pointing to his own rec
perry slammed romney's record during his time as governor of massachusetts. >> governor romney left the private sector. he did a great job of creating jobs in the private sector, all around the world. but the fact is, when he moved that experience to government, he had one of the lowest job creation rates in the country. >> the states are different. texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax. texas has a right-to-work state, a republican legislature, a republican supreme...
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forcing the hand of several other people including governor romney. woodruff: you think that would ham? >> saying he will reveal the taxes he's paid over the last ten years, that will force people to do the same. mitt romney has a chance judy to rewrite the first line of his obituary. the first line of the obituary mitt romney, governor of massachusetts died in ogden utah yesterday, he has a chance to win, he leads in the polls so it's awfully tempting. woodruff: 20 seconds. >> i djx you can tell what kind of a conservative, by what year they want to go back to. they always tell him oh you should run you should run. where he goes to the donors and they give him green money i'm skeptical. woodruff: green money. mark shields, david brooks. thank you. >> woodruff: finally tonight it's been a big week for the latest advances in tech. a major gathering in las vegas is closely watched each year for a preview of the practical, the fanciful, the inspirational, and the sometimes puzzling devices heading to market. but there's a big change afoot in that world.
forcing the hand of several other people including governor romney. woodruff: you think that would ham? >> saying he will reveal the taxes he's paid over the last ten years, that will force people to do the same. mitt romney has a chance judy to rewrite the first line of his obituary. the first line of the obituary mitt romney, governor of massachusetts died in ogden utah yesterday, he has a chance to win, he leads in the polls so it's awfully tempting. woodruff: 20 seconds. >> i...
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i thought benjamin netanyahu did everybody to put a romney button on his lapel and romney bumper sticker on his car. there was no question about it. but i think he understands-- he's up for reelizabeth-- people of israel do not want to see relations with the american people and the american administration in any way strained, and i think he understood his position as well. and we've got people not being killed right now, and that is good. . >> brown: david, just thinking again about the president being in asia for what they've called his pivot to that region, to chine pap and then, of course, the middle east bubbles up again. do you-- what does that portend, do you think, for his foreign policy and his attentions? >> well, i have to say we didn't really talk much about foreign policy in the campaign, and there was sort of, i think, a consensus on what to do. one certainly had the sense this week that forepolicy was going to be a big theme in the second term. basically, you look around the world and she the global project is in crisis all over the place. the middle east is what it is. and
i thought benjamin netanyahu did everybody to put a romney button on his lapel and romney bumper sticker on his car. there was no question about it. but i think he understands-- he's up for reelizabeth-- people of israel do not want to see relations with the american people and the american administration in any way strained, and i think he understood his position as well. and we've got people not being killed right now, and that is good. . >> brown: david, just thinking again about the...
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in the presidential campaign, republican mitt romney picked up new support after winning the illinois primary on tuesday. he won the endorsement of former florida governor jeb bush, who urged republicans to unite. in arbutus, maryland, romney said he got the word just before starting his campaign day. >> my cell phone rang and i looked at it and it just said jeb on it. i picked up the phone and it was jeb bush. and i didn't even have to ask, he said, mitt, i want to let you know that i'm endorsing you today and that was good news. >> sreenivasan: at the same time, a senior aide of his generated new criticism that romney will shed his conservative positions once he has the nomination wrapped up. eric fehrnstrom told cnn: that drew fire from rick santorum, in mandeville, louisiana which holds its primary on saturday. >> they think they have this you have an opportunity here in louisiana to make a very clear statement. you're not looking for someone who is the etch-a-sketch candidate, you're looking for someone who writes what they believe in stone and stays true to what they say. >> sre
in the presidential campaign, republican mitt romney picked up new support after winning the illinois primary on tuesday. he won the endorsement of former florida governor jeb bush, who urged republicans to unite. in arbutus, maryland, romney said he got the word just before starting his campaign day. >> my cell phone rang and i looked at it and it just said jeb on it. i picked up the phone and it was jeb bush. and i didn't even have to ask, he said, mitt, i want to let you know that i'm...